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State-building, expansion and conflict

Civilization: The Persians

Name: Amy Gilson


Themes
 How does this theme apply to your civilization?
Political Structures and forms of governance
  • The government of the Achaemenid empire depended on a finely tuned balance between central initiative and local administration.
  • The Achaemenid empire delegated governors to be agents of the central administration and to manage affaris in the various regions.
  • The Parthians established themselves through an organization of leaders who met in councils and together determined the design for the allied groups.
Empires
  • The Achaemenid empire: 558 - 330 BCE
  • The Seleucid empire: 328 - 83 BCE
  • The Parthian empire: 247 BCE - 224 CE
  • The Sasanid empire: 224 - 651 CE
Nations and nationalism
  • Darius vastly broadened the empire and made Persepolis the capital, which soon became the nerve center of the Achaemenid empire.
Revolts and revolutions
  • The Ionian Greeks rebelled against the Persians when they fell under their control causing a series of battles known as the Persian Wars.
Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations
  • Darius directed legal experts to study and systemize the laws of his subject people.